A question for die-hard flightsimmers
 

i.e. those who pay lots of money for bits and pieces for your 'home cockpit'

Why?

I can understand it if you were studying for a pilots license, say, but if you're just a casual gamer, why spend so much when the same effect can be achieved with the bare minimum?

Dont get me wrong, I love my FS 2004 (cause I have an Airwolf chopper! :rock::rock:) but I cant imagine paying hundreds to have a 'virtual radio stack' and a full cockpit on my desk. (Besides, I'd never hear the end of it from my mother :rotfl:)

http://www.xkeys.com/pigraphics/grre...s/bigfoot1.jpg

Illustrates my point (though I think he's playing Falcon 4.0 - it'd probably be less confusing with his setup :rotfl:

For the immersion I guess... now, wouldnt it be fun to turn your room to a submarine´s commandroom with every valve actually doing something in-game? ;)

:x HEY ! WHO TOOK THAT PICTURE OF MY ROOM!
:stare:


:rotfl: nah, its not a die hard flight simmer,
its just a overgrown with a big wallet addict :up:

so much effort for flightsim equipment but none for real fighter-pilot boots:rotfl:

My mum would have a field day with that, every school morning. *ARROOOOOOOOOOOGA!* "WAKE UP!"

It's cuz it's coooool! :rotfl:

can you imagine doing the same with something like Dangerous waters and spending a couple of grand doing out a sonar shack?

Gf enters room: Whatchya doing?

Me (staring at screen,): trackin' a boomer.....

GF: Oh, ok. I'm going out for a few hours

(hours later GF returns home.)

GF: Whatchya doing?

Me (staring at screen,) : trackin' a boomer......

Hmm, maybe it works for some sims and not others.....

Because you can, if it's a hobby that brings you hours of entertainment then there is no limit to what you can invest. Who would'nt want a full blown cockpit to fly from ? :rock:

As a real world pilot, and an avid flight simmer, I would love to have a multi million dollar simulator like you might find at, say, Boeing. :yep: For my home flight simming, I dont even have a yoke. Just a joystick. I admit I would like a yoke, pedals, and a 4 engine throttle quadrant, but I agree that buying all the radio stacks etc is a bit much....

Also, those spending hundreds of dollars on home flight sim products might want to consider a trip to the local flight school...you might well be able to afford a bunch of hours int he real thing!

It could be worse, you could spend several million on a real boeing, set up hydralics, then hook up your computer to really get into it.... :rotfl:

Or, buying a Sub, doing the same, and never leaving for weeks at a time...:rotfl:

I know a guy called kevin saker well know of he has a full boeing 757 / 767 cockpit in his house he made himself every single flight deck switch buzzer light and whistle works he runs 5 pc units that will run the sim but it takes up an entire room.

watch kings of sims on discovery chanel.

You can fly a real flight sim for about £200 an hour ,and if you ask me nicely I might even come along and offer a bit of advice!

Dare I ask? http://www.langkawi.dk/midis/104.gif

Well, even though I've actually got a pilot's licence, I have also got a full airliner cockpit halfway constructed in a spare room, and I'll tell you why:
It's a challenge to build it and I enjoy doing that, working out how to build the controls and such. I'm in no rush to complete it though (and yes my wife hates it), it's just a fun thing to mess around with whenever the mood takes me. I can go and fly the real thing when I like, but it doesn't stop me building the thing, as it's more like 'building a convincing movie set' that I find the fun part.

:D Chock

That image is nothing; there's folks out there who go to painstaking lengths to build entire full-scale accurate cockpits and go the extra distance to find proper matching bolts, knobs. toggles, etc.

Hey, if I had the cash, I'd do it! :D :D :D

Yup, it's not that out of the ordinary to do that kind of thing:

http://www.simpits.org/

:D Chock